by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 26, 2018
Before Scott Belsky had a product, he had a brand. Belsky is founder of Behance, an online portfolio company for creatives that he later sold to Adobe for an estimated $150 million. Today, Belsky is Adobe’s chief product officer and a venture capital investor. Belsky...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 16, 2018
In a trailer for the highly-anticipated film, First Man, starring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong, scenes from the movie are shown with no dialogue. Instead, we hear John F. Kennedy’s words from his Moon Shot Speeches delivered to Congress in 1961 and the...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 5, 2018
Abraham Lincoln didn’t have a TED stage to share his ideas; he used a tree stump instead. But his talks went viral. Farmers and townspeople would ride for miles to hear Lincoln speak. What they loved most about Lincoln was the way he used stories to captivate them....
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2018
Mars Mundy’s car broke down shortly after he graduated from law school. And, like many people, he had a frustrating experience with repair shops. Mundy channeled his frustration into building a startup to transform the auto repair industry. He never did practice law....
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2018
During a visit to the United Arab Emirates, I was invited to speak to college students to learn more about how the country is preparing the next generation for a post-oil future. I met with students who were required to present their final projects in a 3-minute pitch...
by carolynkilmer@gmail.com | Sep 25, 2018
In the forward to John Hennessy’s book, Leading Matters, author Walter Isaacson writes, “There is one leadership skill in this book that I found a bit unexpected but also profound: storytelling.” Storytelling’s influence on Hennessy’s career is, indeed, profound. And...
